Perpetuos

Aprenda a sorprender. Más que ninguna otra forma de arte, la naturaleza de la fotografía exige que el espectador se vea constantemente interrogado y sorprendido por nuevas imágenes e interpretaciones diferentes. Asimismo, sea bueno, de forma sistemática. El propósito de este libro es explicar qué hace que una fotografía sea excelente, a la vez que explora los recursos que utilizan los mejores fotógrafos para conseguir su propósito una y otra vez. Comprenda la composición: los famosos diagramas de Freeman rompen con los conceptos abstractos. Indague a fondo: en este libro encontrará ...

'Este libro suena: mientras navega por las aguas del río Magdalena, va recogiendo los cantares de la gente y los sones de las guitarras, las tamboras y los acordeones. En el altar de la música celebran su comunión las palabras y las imágenes. Estos textos y estas fotos de certera belleza eligen, así, la mejor manera de contar las desventuras de una región castigada por la pobreza, que en la música encuentra rescate y redención.' Eduardo Galeano.Incluye CD.

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George...

Anthological exhibition of Cuban photography, fifty artists and one hundred images allow an extensive tour of the development of photography in Cuba since its arrival on the island in 1840 to the present. With this exhibition, curated by the specialist Rafael Acosta de Arriba, the exhibition of Cuban photography returns to the Museum's halls. Somehow a similar attempt was made in 1983, when another representative sample of our photography was deployed to date. For the occasion, a catalog has been published in which several specialists discuss photography in Cuba, prominent women photographers ...